VMware Horizon View Monitoring
Overview
Applications Manager lets you auto-discover, monitor and manage your VMware Horizon View environments. Applications Manager collects data from your managed virtual desktops and multiple Horizon View instances, spread across one or more datacenters. This data is then presented in preconfigured dashboards for real-time performance analysis. Applications Manager supports Version 8 of Horizon server. It assists multiple Horizon View instances and provides you with a single intuitive dashboard that allows you to view all VMware Horizon View components, status of services used by the View and underlying infrastructure as well.
While configuring the VMware Horizon View, Applications Manager discovers the following components as different monitors associates them to Monitor Group for Horizon View:
- VMware Horizon View Connection Broker
- Active Directory
- vCenter
- MsSQL or ORacle DB used for Events
- Query Monitor with events query
Creating a new VMware Horizon View monitor
Supported Versions: VMware Horizon v7.13 to v8.14
Prerequisites for monitoring VMware Horizon View metrics:Click here
Using the REST API to add a new VMware Horizon View monitor:Click here
- Go to New Monitor → Add New Monitor → Virtualization category → VMware Horizon View monitor type.
- Specify the Display Name of the VMware Horizon View.
- Enter the Connection Broker Hostname or IP Address of the host where the Connection Broker is running.
- Enter User Name and Password for authentication.
- Choose the appropriate Version of Horizon server.
- Specify the Polling Interval in minutes.
- Click Fetch Horizon View Components. This discovers the VMware Horizon View Components namely vCenter Servers, Active Directory, MsSQL or Oracle DB used for Events and Query Monitor with events query from the network and starts monitoring it.
| Note : Check out the Prerequisite for adding the Connection Broker monitor & the APM host. |
Create a new VMware Horizon View Connection Broker monitor
Supported Versions: VMware Horizon v7.13 to v8.14
Prerequisites for monitoring VMware Horizon View Connection Broker metrics:Click here
Using the REST API to add a new VMware Horizon View Connection Broker monitor:Click here
- Click on New Monitor link.
- Select VMware Horizon View Connection Broker under the Virtualization category.
- Specify the Display Name of the VMware Horizon View.
- Enter the Connection Broker Hostname or IP Address of the host where the Connection Broker is running.
- Enter User Name and Password for authentication.
- Choose the appropriate Version of Horizon server.
- Specify the Polling Interval in minutes.
- Choose the Monitor Group with which you want to associate the VMware ESX server to, from the combo box (optional).
- Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the VMware ESX/ESXi server from the network and starts monitoring it.
Monitored Parameters
Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on VMware Horizon View Connection Broker under the Virtualization Table. Displayed is the VMware Horizon View bulk configuration view distributed into three tabs:
- Availability tab, gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
- Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
- List view enables you to perform bulk admin configurations.
Click on the monitor name to see all the server details listed under the following tabs:
- Connection Broker
- Desktop Details
- Machines Details
- View Pool
- VM Details
- Session Details
- vCenter Details
- Composer Domain Details
- Events DB Details
- License Details
Connection Broker
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Connection Broker Configuration | |||
| Connection Broker ID | The ID of the View connection broker. |  |  |
| Name | The name of the View connection broker. | | |
| DNS Name | The domain's DNS name. | | |
| NetBIOS Name | The domain's NetBIOS name of the connection broker server. | | |
| IP Address | The IP address of the connection broker server. | | |
| Version | VMware View Version. | | |
| Build | VMware View Buiild. | | |
| Activation | Activation Status. | | |
| Is Alive | Indicates whether the broker component is up. | | |
| Last Backup Time | The time during which the last View LDAP backup was performed. | | |
| Type | The internal monitoring type. | | |
| External URL | URL throught whichh other modules connects. | | |
| Connection Broker Stats | |||
| Total Sessions | The total number of desktop sessions. | | |
| Maximum Session | The highest recorded number of current VDM sessions. | | |
| Total SVI Sessions | The current number of VDM SVI sessions. | | |
| Maximum SVI Sessions | The highest recorded number of current VDM SVI sessions. | | |
| Total Checked Out VMs | The current number of checked out VDM VMs. | | |
| Maximum Checked Out VMs | The highest recorded number of current checked out VDM VMs. | | |
Desktop Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Desktop Count by state | |||
| Enabled Desktops | Number of desktops in Enabled state. | | |
| Provisioning Enabled Desktops | Number of desktops having provisioning enabled. | | |
| Desktop Type Details | |||
| Number of Desktops | Total number of desktops created in the Horizon server. | | |
| Automated Desktop Sessions | Number of Desktops created with Automated type | | |
| Manual Desktop Sessions | Number of Desktops created with Manual type | | |
| RDS Desktop Sessions | Number of Desktops created with RDS type | | |
| Desktop Configuration Details | |||
| Name | Name of the desktop pool. | | |
| Type | Type of the desktop pool. | | |
| Source | The source type used while creation of desktop. | | |
| Enabled | The Enabled / Disabled state of desktops | | |
| User Assignment | The user which is assigned to desktop. | | |
| vCenter ID | The VCenter associated with the desktop. | | |
| Provisioning | The provisioning enabled state of desktop. | | |
| No. of Machines | No. of machines present in the desktop. | | |
| No. of Sessions | No. of sessions active with the machines with associated the desktop. | | |
Machine Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Machines State Summary | |||
| Total Machines | Number of Machines associated with the Horizon server | | |
| Managed Machines | Total number of machines in Managed state. | | |
| Unmanaged Machines | Total number of machines in Unmanaged state. | | |
| Problematic Machines | Total number of problematic machines. | | |
| Machines needed reboot | Machines in the state that it needs to be re-booted. | | |
| Machines having invalid agent IP | Machines having improper IP configuration. | | |
| RDP not enabled machines count | Machines that are not enabled with RDP. | | |
| Machines having unreachable agent | The number of machines with it's agent in unreachable state. | | |
| Agent startup failed machines | Number of machines with agents which are not started properly. | | |
| Machines having disabled agent | Number of machines with it's agent in disabled state. | | |
| Machines in maintenance mode | Total number of machines in maintenance state. | | |
| Machines Configuration Details | |||
| Name | Name of the machine. | | |
| Machine DNS | The DNS host of the machine. | | |
| Assigned User | User assigned to the machine. | | |
| Desktop | The desktop name which having this machine. | | |
| State | Current state of the machine. | | |
| Type | Denotes whether the machine is Managed or Unmanaged. | | |
| OS | Operating system of the machine. | | |
| OS Architecture | OS Archicture of the machine deployed in it. | | |
View Pool
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Horizon View Pool Configuration | |||
| Pool ID | This indicates the View desktop pool ID. Spaces are not allowed when specifying the pool ID. | | |
| Name | The name of the desktop pool | | |
| Datastore Path | This specifies which datastores to use for provisioning full-clone desktops. | | |
| Resource Pool Path | This indicates the path to the resource pool that will contain the virtual desktops. If resource pools are not being used, simply specify the vSphere cluster. | | |
| VM Folder Path | This specifies the vCenter folder in which we have to create the virtual machines. | | |
| Parent VM Path | Indicates the full path to the parent VM used to export the network label data. | | |
| Parent VM Snapshot Path | Indicates the path to the parent VM snapshot. | | |
| Composer Domain | Your View Composer servers and the domains they are attached to. | | |
| Delivery Model | Indicates if the Hosted Virtual Desktop delivery model is automatically provisioned into View pools. | | |
| Provision Enabled | Indicates if the provisioning of VM for VDM is enabled or not. | | |
| Protocol | This specifies the default display protocol from either RDP or PCoIP | | |
| Horizon View Pool Stats | |||
| Minimum Provisioned Desktops | This indicates the minimum number of linked-clone desktops that should be provisioned and available during View Composer maintenance operations. This value must be smaller than the MinimumCount value. | | |
| Head Room Count | This specifies the minimum number of desktops to have powered on and available at all times. | | |
| Maximum Count | This specifies the maximum number of desktops to create. | | |
| Minimum Count | This specifies that desktops should be provisioned on demand, in amounts equal to the number provided. To provision all desktops up front, use the same value specified for MaximumCount. | | |
VM Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Horizon View VM Details | |||
| Hostname | The hostname of the virtual machine. | | |
| IP Address | The IP address of the virtual machine. | | |
| VM Name | The machine name of the virtual machine to be added to the pool. | | |
| Guest Full Name | The name of the guest machine. | | |
| Is In Pool | This retrieves desktops based on whether or not they are in a desktop pool. Options are true or false. | | |
| Pool ID | This indicates the desktop pool ID. | | |
| Is Linked Clone | This retrieves desktops based on whether or not they are a linked clone. Options are true or false. | | |
| Machine ID | The Physical machine ID used to identify the physical desktop. | | |
| vCenter ID | The vCenter Server ID. | | |
| Path | The full path to the parent virtual machine. | | |
Session Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Desktop Sessions | No. of Desktop Sessions that are currently active. | | |
| Application Sessions | No. of Application Sessions that are currently active. | | |
| PCoIP Sessions Count | No. of Sessions that are using PCoIP protocol type. | | |
| RDP Sessions Count | No. of Sessions that are using RDP protocol type. | | |
| Blast Sessions Count | No. of Sessions that are using Blast protocol type. | | |
| Unknown | No. of Sessions that are using Unknown protocol type. | | |
| Connected Sessions | No. of Sessions that are in Connected state. | | |
| Disconnected Sessions | No. of Sessions that are in Disconnected state. | | |
| Pending Sessions | No. of Sessions that are in Pending state. | | |
| Avg, Idle Duration | Average Idle duration of a Session. | | |
| Remote Sessions Details | |||
| Session | Indicates the View session ID for remote VMs. | | |
| DNS Name | Indicates the DNS name of the Virtual Desktop for remote VMs. | | |
| Pool ID | Indicates the desktop pool ID for remote VMs. | | |
| Start Time | Indicates the time the session was started including the day, time, time zone, and year. | | |
| State | Indicates the state of the desktop (Connected or Disconnected). | | |
| Protocol | Indicates the protocol being used in session (PCoIP or RDP). | | |
| Duration | Indicates the duration of the session. | | |
| Local Sessions Details | |||
| Session | Indicates the View session ID for local VMs | | |
| DNS Name | Indicates the DNS name of the Virtual Desktop for local VMs | | |
| Pool ID | Indicates the desktop pool ID for local VMs | | |
| Start Time | Indicates the time the session was started including the day, time, time zone, and year. | | |
| State | Indicates the state of the desktop (Connected or Disconnected). | | |
| Protocol | Indicates the protocol being used in session (PCoIP or RDP). | | |
| Duration | Indicates the duration of the session. | | |
| Blast Performance | |||
| Avg. Blast Data Sent | Avg. data transmitted on a Blast protocol session in MB. | | |
| Blast Data Sent Total | Total data transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast Data Received | Average data received on a Blast protocol in MB. | | |
| Blast Data Received Total | Total data transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast Round Trip Time | The average round trip time in milliseconds between server and client for a Blast protocol session. | | |
| Avg. Blast Image Data Sent | Average Imaging data that have been transmitted for a Blast protocol session in MB. | | |
| Blast Image Data Sent Total | Total Imaging data that have been transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast Image Data Received | Average Imaging data that have been received for a Blast protocol session in MB. | | |
| Blast Image Received Total | Total Imaging data that have been received in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast Audio Data Sent | Average Audio data that have been transmitted for a Blast protocol session in MB. | | |
| Blast Audio Data Sent Total | Total Audio data that have been transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast Audio Data Received | Average Audio data that have been received for a Blast protocol session in MB. | | |
| Blast Audio Received Total | Total Audio data that have been received in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast CDR Data Sent | Average CDR data that have been transmitted for a Blast protocol session in MB. | | |
| Blast CDR Data Sent Total | Total CDR data that have been transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast CDR Data Received | Average CDR data that have been received for a Blast protocol session in MB. | | |
| Blast CDR Received Total | Total CDR data that have been received in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast FPS | Average No. of imaging frames per second | | |
| Avg. Blast Packet Loss | The Average packet loss percentage in a Blast protocol session. | | |
| PCoIP performance | |||
| Avg. PCoIP Data Sent | Average data transmitted on a PCoIP protocol session in MB. | | |
| PCoIP Data Sent Total | Total data transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP Data Received | Average data received on a PCoIP protocol in MB. | | |
| PCoIP Data Received Total | Total data transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP Image Data Sent | Average Imaging data that have been transmitted for a PCoIP protocol session in MB. | | |
| PCoIP Image Data Sent Total | Total Imaging data that have been transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP Image Data Received | Average Imaging data that have been received for a PCoIP protocol session in MB. | | |
| PCoIP Image Received Total | Total Imaging data that have been received in MB. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP Audio Data Sent | Average Audio data that have been transmitted for a PCoIP protocol session in MB. | | |
| PCoIP Audio Data Sent Total | Total Audio data that have been transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP Audio Data Received | Average Audio data that have been received for a PCoIP protocol session in MB. | | |
| PCoIP Audio Received Total | Total Audio data that have been received in MB. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP USB Data Sent | Average USB data that have been transmitted for a PCoIP protocol session in MB. | | |
| PCoIP USB Data Sent Total | Total USB data that have been transmitted in MB. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP USB Data Received | Average USB data that have been received for a PCoIP protocol session in MB. | | |
| PCoIP USB Received Total | Total USB data that have been received in MB. | | |
| Avg. Blast FPS | Average No. of imaging frames per second | | |
| Avg. Blast Packet Loss | The Average packet loss percentage in a Blast protocol session. | | |
| Avg. Blast Round Trip Time | The average round trip time in milliseconds between server and client for a PCoIP protocol session. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP Rx Packet Loss | The Average RX packet loss percentage in a PCoIP protocol session. | | |
| Avg. PCoIP Tx Packet Loss | The Average TX packet loss percentage in a PCoIP protocol session. | | |
vCenter Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| vCenter Configuration | |||
| Hostname | Hostname of the vCenter Server. | | |
| Port | This indicates the port to use with vCenter Server. | | |
| Server URL | The  URL of the vCenter via which the View connects. | | |
| Composer URL | The View Composer server URL. | | |
| AD Configuration | The Active directory configuration. | | |
| Version | The version of the vCenter server. | | |
| Composer Enabled | Indicates whether the View composer is enabled. | | |
| Broker Entry | The Connection Broker details. | | |
| Create Ramp Factor | This indicates the maximum concurrent vCenter desktop provisioning operations. | | |
| Delete Ramp Factor | This indicates the maximum concurrent desktop power operations. | | |
| State | The state of the vCenter. | | |
| vCenter Certificate Details | |||
| Hostname | The hostname of the vCenter server. | | |
| Certificate Valid | The SSL certificate Validity. | | |
| Validity Start Date | The SSL certificate Validity start date. | | |
| Validity Expiry Date | The SSL certificate Validity expiry date. | | |
| Reason | The  resason for any SSL error. | | |
| Certificate About To Expire | The flag to the certificate about to expire. | | |
| Certificate Thumb print Matched | The SSL certificate Thumb print matched or not. | | |
Composer Domain Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Domain | The Active Directory Domain used for Vieew Set up. | | |
| Username | The administrator Username. | | |
| vCenter ID | The vCenter ID to which the set up is linked. | | |
| Domains | Domains and sum domain details | | |
| Is Problem | Health status of the Composer domain | | |
| VCenter Host | The VCenter host connected to the View Composer server. | | |
Events DB Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Server | The database hostname. | | |
| Port | The database Port. | | |
| Server Type | The database type (MsSQL /Oracle DB). | | |
| DB Name | The database name of the Alerts & Events. | | |
| Table Prefix | The table prefix for alerts or events tables. | | |
| State | The health of the Events DB. | | |
| Connected | Indicates whether the database is connected. | | |
| Connected Node | The components that are connected. | | |
| Error | Error. | | |
License Details
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| License Expiry Date | The expiry date of the VMware View license. | | |
| Local Mode Enabled | Determines whether users can check out desktops for local use. | | |
| View Composer Enabled | Indicates whether users can use View Composer. | | |
View Composer Servers
| Parameters | Description | Supported Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version 7 or below | Version 8 | ||
| Server Name | The host name or IP of View Composer server | | |
| Port | Port Configured for the View Composer server | | |
| Version | The version of View Composer server. | | |
